Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-11-04
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KANSAS NEWS

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Stevens county has an amateur min
strel company.
Plum and apple trees have buddsd a
second time in HiRwatha.
Morton county claims to have plenty
OF government land yet.
johnson City has an average attend
auoe Of over sixty at it's public schools.
A new town near Emporia has bsan
namsd Lamont, in honor OF ths P1eai-
dents private secretary.
A Stevens county farmer has usod his
homestead, pre- emptiOn and timber
culture rights ali in the same session.
The sulphur springs near ConcoEdia
Rre said TO contain valuable medicinal
qualities.
Tie new superintendent OF the silk
station at Peabody is Mr.. A. Thiessen,
formerly Of Russia.
Norton Courier: ". 2. Pagget, gen
eral merchant at Edmond, failed, last
week, for about $4,000.
Oswego, Labette county, is building 8
young ladies' college which VIII cost
sI5,O 600 when completed.
Three hundred men and one hundred
teams are at work on the Rapid Transit
railway in LeGvenWorth.
OberIin Herald: Bounty was paid
on twenty-si1 wolf seslps ct the last ses-
sion Of the county commissioners.
Atchison has traded the old Kingnan
packing house property to q local COM
pany, which viii continue TO pack hogs.
A man at Sylvan Grove, Kansas, offers
any one who will build a first class AOur
mill at that Place q free mill site and
free water power.
Kansas is one Of the wealthisst states
on the continent. Her taxable property
may be fairly estimated at about ST.
24O,OOO.OOO.
Susan B. Anthony was left a fortune OF
$50, 600 with which to advance ths
cause Of WOmsn's suffrage, by q woman
who believed in her doctrine.
Downs Times: Rev. R. A. Hoffman,
OF this city, was elected Grsn1 Chaplain
Of the Grand Lodge Of Kansas, I. o. q.
T., at the nesting last week.
.Aztsn Anchor: J. Il. Trout has just
had framed a copy Of the first paper
ever printed In America-the Boston
Net1s- Letter of april oath, 1904
The Missouri Pacific has purchased
100 acres OF land near Winfield, Kansas,
for $4,000, and viii locate shops for the
Denver, Memphis, and Atlantic there.
The Masons, ODD Fellows, and
Knights OF Pythias, OF Eminence, have
formed a building association and viii
crest a temple for the use OF their
orders.
The Eureka Herald offers a 800 Or
gan az an indueemsnt for subscribers.
A ticket will be given to each new sub
scriber and the organ viii be drawn fJr
on the lottery plan
Troy CHIEF: Kansas was once bought
from Napoleon BOnRpsrte for sum Of
money that would not pay fourth OF
the interest on what she Is worth now,
and she is but just commencing TO grow.
Owen Jones, q young man living near
Spivey, In Kingman county, WIS killed
while hunting, last week. His dog
knocked his gun from his hands, dis
charging it into his spine. He died in q
few minutes.
There is not wooden mill in Kansas
worthy of the name and yet the WOOL
clip Of this state Ia more than double the
average OF the six New England states,
which have 794 wooden mills, an average
OF 142 mills to the state.
Douglass Tribune: Douglass business
men are showing their faith in the
the sugar mill proposition by subscribing
from 81, 900 to $1,000 in The company.
TIE farmers are showing their conhdencs
by taking shares quite largely.
Osborne Farmer: A rose bush BE-
longing to Mrz. Henry Hatfield, which
ia supposed to bloom in tae month Of
May only, has exeelled itself and now
has several perfectly developed yellow
blooms on it.
Sedan Timss-JOurnGI: Mr.. George
". Clary has 8 curiosity In the way Of
mulberry tree in his yard. The tree WEs
'loaded with fruit last summer ct the
usual time, and is now bending under
the second crop Of fine berries for this
year
Junction City linton; When tins
Work under way AZ = orr Esll8E q CON-
pIetsd, Kansas will have the largest
training school for cavalry In the United
States. Within her borders, also, s. the
largest cavalry horse breeding farm.
At nesting Of the Woman Suffrage
association, held last week at Newton,
Judge Adams, Of the State Historical So
cistY, read a paper in which be stated
that in the 212 cities and towns the to
tai vote cast was 87,720; and Of this
number 63,G49 were cast by men and
a. 671 were voted by women
Washington Republican: The Physi-
clans at Downs, TO the humber Of i've,
have given notice that they viii hereafter
render no medical service TO customers
who have failed 70 pay them for past
services They have made out black
list containing the names Of Ill doIjn-
quents, in order that each physician msY
know Who they srs and let them die il
they don's pay up.
LsavenWOFth Times: The great cd
vantage Of Kansas over the greater part
Of the country Is It's freedom from the
early frost OF frosts dE1ring the growing
months, which ara the fear Of tie farmer
and the danger of his crops, ia other
parts Of the country. In Kansas, the
farmer hiss six months when thsEs IS
scarcely ever a frost which viii shsct
vegetation. This year, ths first frost 70
I I-iu vegetation has just made its VISIT